Show Details: December 1999
1999-12-04
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
- Sylvia Poggioli Score: 0
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about emergencies in the news; Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about something high-tech that really didn't need to go high-tech; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the next rule for Sylvester Stallone's employees?
The rules for the Listener Limerick Challenge were read by Scott Turow.
The listener contestant for the second Who's Carl This Time? segment was calling in from the South Pole, Antarctica.
The Bluff the Listener contestant was looking each of the Bluff the Listener stories online to see which panelist was telling the truth. Peter Sagal jokingly said that the listener was cheating.
1999-12-11
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 19
Lightning Start: 7 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Adam Felber
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Ken Rudin Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about Main Street America; Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about an unlikely lecture; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the next hidden talent of Al Gore's to be revealed?
The show page on NPR.org has details for the show that aired on 1999-11-27.
1999-12-18
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 5 Correct: 2
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Rank:
Third:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 8
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 3
- Linda Wertheimer Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about a kinder, gentler law enforcement; Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about a one-of-a-kind package tour; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what the United States will give away next?
1999-12-25
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 8
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 2
- Liane Hansen Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about winter holidays from the past or afar; Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about Santa problems in the modern world; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: how a famous politician might be reincarnated?
Year in Review edition of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!